Sharon
Shepherd
Athlete 1956 - 1960
1960 Linfield College graduate Sharon Shepherd was an athlete of exceptional
ability, from her youth in Oregon's Lane County, until she competed for the
final time six years ago, at age 57.
In 2001, she will be the first woman
athlete and the third woman to be enshrined in the Linfield Athletics Hall of
Fame since was founded in 1998.
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The Oct. 19, 1967, Linfield Review
student newspaper said time was, Oct. 5, 1956, “When a Linfield coed came back
to school with a suitcase of barbells. She was Sharon (Shepherd), shotput
specialist, and all around athlete.”
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Paul Durham’s “Dodging with Durham” sports column July 4,
1962, McMinnville News-Register
LINFIELD’S MOST NOTED GAL
athlete, Sharon Shepherd, represented the United States in Chicago last weekend
as a member of the women’s track team in the international competition with
Poland. She will also compete against the Russian teams in Palo Alto in a
couple of weeks.
Sharon (of Mapleton, Oregon will
be back close to home in the fall, as she has accepted a position on the staff
at North Bend junior high as an instructor in health and physical education.
During the past school year Miss Shepherd taught and took graduate work at Ohio
University.
